SQL Server Analysis Services includes the ability to capture information about every query run against a cube. Author Ramunas Balukonis showed us last time how to query this data. This time he brings us a method of interperting which dimensions are actually be used in satifying Analysis Services queries.
SQL Server 2005 has made it a lot easier for us to loop over a collection and with each iteration do something with the item retrieved. In this article we are going to show you how to iterate over a folder looking at the files within and doing something with those files. In this instance we will be entering the filename into a SQL Server table and we will then load the actual files we have just found into another SQL Server table. You will note here that there is still the need to load the file names into a table as an intermediate step just as we need to do in SQL Server 2000.
Red Gate Software, a leading supplier or SQL Server and .NET tools has updated the classic "A Christmas Carol" to show the importance of stress testing.
SQL Server 7 revamped Enterprise Manager to be an MMC snap in with many more capabilities and functions than it had in SQL Server 6.5. Dale Elizabeth Corey brings us a look at the top ten features in Enterprise Manager that you may not be aware of.
SQL Server 2005 gives us loads of flexibility in our workflow management to decide how and if the following task should be executed. In this article we are going to introduce you to one of those ways and that is putting an expression into the workflow constraint itself.
The heart of an RDBMS is the transaction system that it employs. SQL Server has a great one that can easily be misunderstood or misused by those that haven't spent time delving into the details of how it works. Don Peterson has done that and brings us the start of a new series on the details of how transactions work in SQL Server.
In this article we are going to assume a few things about the reader as we want to concentrate as much as possible on the Script Component itself and not the peripheral stuff
The things we will assume are:
* You are happy with adding a DataFlow task to the designer in Workflow
* You are happy to configure an OLEDB Source adapter
* You are comfortable with configuring mappings in the Destination adapter
To do some of the stuff we wanted in SQL Server 2000 DTS we had put together some serious glue code and to be honest it wasn't pretty. One of the things that we used to have to do this way was if we wanted to implement using workflow constraints a Logical OR. Well that has changed and it is now really simple and this article is going to show you how to implement it.
On this site, we have taken a contrarian approach to looking at the ways to configure SQL Server with our Worst Practices series. However Microsoft still looks at it from the other side and release a tool called the Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server. Author Dinesh Asanka brings us a short look at this tool.
In the newsgroups we have been asked on a number of occasions how to execute a stored procedure once for every row of input data. There's currently no really good way of doing this but in SQL Server 2005 DTS that is about to change. This article is going to show you how to take values from a source table and for every row execute a stored procedure which inserts values into another table.
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